Apparatus for movable publicity



May 22, 1923. 1,456,124 F. E. s. DUSSERIS APPARATUS FOR MOVABLEPUBLICITY:

Filed May 2. 1922 Patented May 22, $23.

x HENRI FRANQOIS ETIENNE SYLVAIN DUtSSaEBlTS, OF PARIS, RANCH.

APPARATUS FOR MOVABLE FU'BLIOIT'Y.

Application filed May 2, 1922. Serial No. 558,024.

To all whom it may concern: The chains may be of the type here shown,

Be it known that I, HENRI FRANQOIS or of any other suitable type.

ETIENNE SYLVAIN Dussnms, a citizenv of No matter what the type employedoi the France, and a resident of Paris,France, have chains and thelength oi the same may be,

invented some new and useful Improvements use is always made, accordingto the inven- 60 in Apparatus for Movable Publicity, 0t tion, ofcrossbars or the like for suspension which the following is aspecification. of the advertisements on them in a suitable The inventionrelates to improvements in way, the extremities of said crossbars or theapparatus for movable publicity, and more like being provided withspecial hooking especially improvements in means constitutmeans arrangedto assure perfectly the ating the endless, movable element, and intachment of the crossbars to the chains and means for supportingeiiiciently the adverto render the engagement and disengagetisements orpublications upon this movable ment possible even during the operationof element, the purpose of these improvements the apparatus.

being to render the advertisements or the The details of these hookingmeans are like interchangeable even during the workshown in Figs. 3 to5. The same consist of ing of the apparatus. projections 5 on the twoends of the cross In order to attain these objects, use is bars andprovided with openings 6 in which made, according to the invention, insuch hooks 7 may engage. v

0 apparatus for movable publicity, of endless The hooks 7 form parts oiloops provided 7 chains, the movable element consisting preiteach with abent portion 8 serving to engage erably of two endless and parallelchains a chain link as shown in Figs. 3 to with cross members hooked onto them, the After establishment of the attachment in said cross membersserving as carrying the way shown in Figs. 3 and 4c, a sleeve 9 meansfor the advertisements or the like, is pushed over the loop, its portion8 tormand the advertisements or the like being ing slightly a spring sothat the parts are rendered detachable and interchangeable, at securedin their relative position. Therewill, thus greatly enhancing theefficiency of {ore no casual unhooking can take place durthe apparatus.ing operation of the apparatus, the coacting 30 In the accompanyingdrawings the imparts being kept together with a certain tenprovementsforming object of the present sion by the arrangement described.

invention are represented: In utilizing roller chains such as shown InFlg. 1 1n a schematic View of an endless lll Figs. 6 and 7, the hook orloop 8 is archain servlng as the movable element; ranged to present aprofiled shape 10 formed n gn a frontal View Of a complete in a suitablemanner to engage chain links movable element, constituting an endlesswithout sliding on the same. The result obband with its chains andalvertisements; tained will be exactly the same as with the The Figs. 3,4 and 5 are views, on a larger constructional embodiments specifiedherescale, or means serving to connect the cross before.

40 members carrying the advertisements with The hooking systems heredescribed afiord the chain links; complete surety that the displacementof the The Figs. 6, 7 and 8 show modified forms advertisements willensue uniformly, withof some essential parts of the invention. out anydeformations or other obstacles. The invention relates essentially tothe Moreover, the systems described render it 45 utilization of chains 1of sufficient length, to possible to vary the height or length of theoffer a succession of branches 2 led over a advertisements, the onlyprecaution to obplurality of suitable pulleys 3 arranged serve being topay attention to a strict horipreferably upon metallic tubes, asindicated zontal arrangement of the crossbars of the in Fig. 1. chains.50 These chains are disposed parallel with The systems described permitfurther- 1.05 one another and, in practice, are actuated si more tochange the advertisements or publimultaneously with the same speed, byan cations during the operation of the apparaelectric motor, with use ofsuitable and well tus. To effect such change it will sutiice to knownintermediate means which are theredisengage the hooks, by pushing, asidethe fore not described herein. sleeves and taking off thereupon thehooks projeetions'and from the ehain other into a link of "one of Inapparatus of the class described, a plurality of endless chains, grossbars between the chains to act as supporting means for advertisementsand having perforations on their extremities, loops engaging partly thesaid perforations and partlythe neighboring chain links, and sleeves onthe crossbars arranged to be pushed overthe loops after engagement tosecure the same during the operation of the apparatus.

In Witness whereof I my signature. I HENRI 'FR'ANQOIS SYLVAIN DUSSERIS.

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